Combining plates...I'm not in the kitchen!

Recently I got a great deal on this set of 6 rubbing plates.

I didn't actually buy them to do rubbings, although I hope I'll get to that eventually.

I wanted them to use for printing with my gelli plate. 

When I was watching Creative Jumpstarts at the beginning of the year, Louise Nelson did some very cool videos showing gelli plate printing just using white paint. I have a black-paged journal that needed some base pattern on some pages. 
I brayered white paint onto my gelli plate and pressed down with a rubbing plate to make the pattern impression. First I printed the wet paint left on the plate to a couple of pages

I got 2 prints because of the size of my rubbing plate relative to the size of the page

I then proceeded to print several pages from the gelli plate

Used paper mask to get a nice clear journal space

Paper removed = second print

I applied more pattern, but not more paint

Then kept lifting prints until the plate was clear

This was 3 pulls from the edges of the plate

A couple more plays with white paint

then I wanted to see what metallic paints would look like on the black

Bronze print from rubbing plate

2 pulls from different parts of gelli plate

Gold print from rubbing plate

Gold print from gelli plate

Combination of second pulls from rubbing plate and different area of gelli plate

Silver

And lastly cream 

Masked to create a frame

Mask removed, second pull

Fun times :-) If you're new to my blog, click on the label GELLI PLATE PRINTING, below, and you'll see all of my Gelli experiments.

As an aside, I feel like I'm always saying "I got a great deal" when I show you a new purchase this year. I am being truthful, and it's all because of my year of being thrifty. If it's not a great deal, or I feel like "it" will maybe just sit in the cupboard with other supplies that I'm just not getting to use, I'm not buying.
Hope you have a fun weekend